Wednesday, November 19, 2008

RM#2 : Coffee Caramel Cake

I saw this cake in a German Magazine. And the instant I saw it, I fell in luv with it and tried to make one. For the 1st time itself, it came out excellent and my son & me, we are coffee lovers, liked it very much. It is no-fuss cake.

Coffee Caramel Cake
Ingredients
Powdered Almonds - 100 gm
Butter - 125 gm and for greasing the cake form
Powdered Sugar - 180 gm
Bourbon - Vanilla Sugar - 2 pcks. (you can use essence also)
Salt - 1 pinch
Instant Coffee Powder - 40 gm
Cocoa Powder - 3 tb.sp
Eggs - 5
Creamy Curd - 150 gm
All purpose flour - 400 gm
Backing Powder - 2 t.sp
For the outer caramel layer
Sugar - 100 gm
Butter - 50 gm
Whipping cream - 100 gm

Method
Roast the powdered almonds in a pan till you get the aroma of it. In a bowl beat together the butter, sugar, vanilla-sugar, salt and 20 gm coffee powder. One by one add the eggs and keep beating. Add the curd and beat again. Fold in the flour and the backing powder. And beat till a get a pouring consistency. Add the roasted almond powder, mix again. Pour this mixture in a greased cake form. Bake in a pre-heated oven for about 60 min. at 175 degree.

Once the cake is done take it out and let it cool. Boil 50 ml water and add the rest of the coffee powder to this water. In another sauce pan cook the butter and sugar together till you get light brown caramel. To this add the whipping cream and cook again. Till you get the thick consistency again. Add the coffee mixture and cook again for about 5 min. Let it cool. Pour this mixture over the cake and let it set for sometime.

Enjoy the cake with your evening snacks/Tea.

Check out what the other RM runners are cooking today.
1) DK

2) Siri

3) Srivalli

4) Ranji

5)PJ

6)Curry Leaf

7)Medha

8)Priya

9)Bhawna

10)Raaji

11)Ruchii

12)Anu

13)Kamala

14)Roopa

15)Divya Kudua

16)Rekha

17)Divya M

18)Lakshmi

19)Raaga
 
20)Sripriya

21)Viji

22)Kamalika

23)Pavani

12 comments:

  1. The cake look superb and that caramel on the top is just heaven, drool drool drool

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  2. Cake looks divine..love those caramel topping...drooling over the cake..

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  3. they look so good Lakshmi. cocoa powder does add lot of taste to the cake.. they look so soft and spongy.

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  4. sounds like a coffee lover's dream come true

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  5. coffee sounds tempting. Collect your award from my blog.

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  6. cool lakshmi that u baked d such choco cake with caramel topping.....a wonderful one....i love choco

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  7. Looks yummyilicious, soft, fluffy and caramelised

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  8. cake looks perfect, the caramel has whipping cream and would have tasted wonderful.

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  9. Coffe and curds in cake.I am curious.Will surely try to know what the taste is

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  10. Where can I find edible glycerine in India?
    Thanx

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  11. Bookmarked this recipe. Its really an amazing combination. Thanks for sharing!

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